Description: Small annual herbs with non-glandular hairs.
Leaves cauline, alternate, margins entire, sessile.
Heads terminal, solitary, pedunculate; involucral bracts 2-seriate with 1 to 2 outer shorter ones, herbaceous with scarious margins; receptacle convex, naked, pitted. Outer florets 2–3-seriate, female, fertile; corolla tubular, narrowed and 2- or 3-toothed at apex. Inner florets 2–5, bisexual, sterile, tubular, 3–5-toothed; corolla widened at apex; anthers obtuse at base, apical appendage short and acute.
Achenes with 2-fid hairs; pappus of scales longer than involucre and corolla.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 2 species, endemic Australia. Australia: N.S.W., Vic., N.T., S.A., W.A.
Text by E. A. Brown
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Stems and leaves finely hairy; fertile achenes densely hairy with stiff brown or white hairs, whole plant green or greyish | Elachanthus pusillus |
| Plant glabrous; fertile achenes with white sericeous hairs only in between the ribs; whole plant yellow-green | Elachanthus glaber |
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